sobbed
Example Sentences
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“If they are to amount to a crime then the legislature will need to codify it,” Robinson said from the bench Thursday morning, as Parker audibly sobbed at the defense table.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 21, 2026
One man sobbed into the sleeves of his evening jacket.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 26, 2026
One man, who'd come for his 50th birthday and had always wanted to see shooting stars, sobbed as he saw them streak across the sky, she tells us.
From BBC • Feb. 28, 2026
“You can’t imagine how it touches every part of our lives,” she sobbed.
From Salon • Feb. 15, 2026
Peach sobbed and sniffed, and I heard leaving noises, the kind of settling-down, murmuring noises that drift across people when they are all talking at once, softly, ending a conversation or starting the next one.
From Each Little Bird That Sings by Deborah Wiles
